Corridor Digital 3D-Printed Every Frame in This Amazing Short Film

Corridor Digital 3D-printed every frame in this amazing short film that you’re about to watch. It follows a simple narrative: a character wakes up, gets out of bed, and walks outside, only to encounter a surreal twist where his dog encounters a seemingly evil robot vacuum.

The concept is simple: instead of sculpting clay or posing puppets like traditional stop-motion, the team would design a digital character, animate it in software, and 3D-print each frame as a physical model. The goal was to create a short film—about 2,000 frames—where every pose is a tangible object you could hold.

After digital sculpting in Blender, the animation was done by hand-keying poses, not motion capture, to mimic stop-motion’s deliberate feel. Each frame was then exported as an individual 3D model file. The team had to print in batches, with 20-30 frames per tray, each taking hours to complete.

They shot everything with a DSLR and an insane camera rig, manually swapping each figurine, adjusting lights, as well as snapping a photo—12 frames per second, so 2,000 shots for a roughly 2.2-minute film. Failures were frequent, whether it be warped models or failed supports, but they embraced the imperfections as part of the charm.